Ron Jeffries

Ron Jeffries (born December 26, 1939) is one of the three founders of the Extreme Programming (XP) software development methodology circa 1996, along with Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham. He was from 1996, an XP coach on the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System project, which was where XP was invented. He is an author of Extreme Programming Installed, the second book published about XP. He has also written Extreme Programming Adventures in C#. He is one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.In 2018, Jeffries advocated for abandoning what he termed “Dark Agile,” encouraging developers to return to the original values and mindset of Agile.

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In 1968 he joined the University of Michigan’s MERIT Computer Network staff as a systems programmer, helping port the early Michigan Terminal System (MTS) operating system to IBM 360/67 hardware. A Quote

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